discounting in advance any new claims. It is equally true, how ever, that Dr. Friedmann has convinced many-- -Berlin physi cians that in his address to the Berlin Medical .society he did not overstate his discovery. The most skeptical of the Ber lin scientists have demanded that Dr. Frienmann give them his bacilli, so that they could submit his discovery to the acid test of treating certified cases of tuber culosis under the most rigid ob servation conditions they could impose. Dr. Friedmann has un yieldingly refused to give his bacilli to anyone, on the ground that any one from a small drop of the culture could develop enough to supply the world and deprive him of all credit and recompense. While Friedmann's partisans defend his position, the skeptics contend that his refusal to meet their conditions is strong evi dence against the reliability of his claims. i tfi.' DrFriedmann's final answer is the offer to treat with his new Serum every certified case of tu berculosis sent to him. The test cases which Dr. Friedmann will treat will be certi fied at the Royal and other clinics. Dr. Friedmann refuses to see all visiting doctors from various parts of the world on the ground that the danger of losing a smalf quantity of his bacilli ia too great I have personally talked with many Berlin physicians about Dr. Friedmann and his claims, and found that there is much skep ticism among physicians who have not personally observed and examined the tuberculars Fried mann claims to have cured. On the other hand, four physicians of standing whom Friedmann has trusted and permitted to see his treatment, have expressed themselves to me as convinced that Friedmann has discovered the long-sought germ which will kill the tubercular germ in the human body, and that his treat ment will cure bone tuberculosis and lung tuberculosis, the latter in not too advanced stages. These four doctors are Prof. Schleich, inventor of local an aesthesia; Prof. Konrad Kuster, who has practiced medicine for SO years and received a royal medical title? Dr. Erich Muller, chief physician of the Berlin Or phan asylum; Dr. Karfunkel, chief physician of the east side polyclinic. Prof. Schleich said to me: "I was extremely skepti6al until I sent one case to Friedmann. I have seen 60 or 70 cures." Prof. Konrad Kuster said to me: "No American doctors can be more skeptical than I was two years ago, but I have seen the Friedmann treatment in 500 case? and I am convinced that Fried mann can cure tuberculosis of the bones and lungs, the latter in not too advanced stages." Dr. Erich Muller said to me: "Dr. Friedmann has treated and cured three cases of tuberculosis from my hospital, and I intend to give his treatment there as soon &